I read a review of Adventures in Missing The Point by Brian Borger of Coalition for Christian Outreach

The impression I got from the book is a variation on what Borger noticed:
Interestingly, it is most often the controversial Campolo who calls McLaren to a more traditional, classic formulation of the matter at hand.

This is where I found the responses Camplolo gave to be very unlike Campolo. It seemed he was reaching for points of disagreement, when it’s my suspicion and inclination to belive that he has to “reach” because he agrees so wholeheartedly with McLaren. In Missing the Point, I believe Mclaren sounds a lot like Campolo. And why not? Both men are incredibly astute, articulate voices for the call to “attention” by the Churches to the clear calls from within the Gospel to step outside of the cultural forces (as much as such is possible, and we certainly never reach that goal but are nevertheless called to keep it up).

I think that for fans of Campolo, the “responses” he gave seem to be too contrived as “contrarian” opinions , as if the charge were to “debate” and “disagree”, and with those two, the difference is not all that great. Actually, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Campolo and McLaren collaborating on some ministry invoilving some area of Social Justice in the near future. Also, McLaren’s close geographic proximity to Washington , DC also makes it likely that he and Wallis/Sojourners will hook up as well. Given that McLaren has an article in the “Environment” issue of Sojo (March 2004), I guess that’s already happened.